Monday, December 2, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can...

• refocus on the requirements of the Embedded Assessment
• create a visual representation of the EA
• review my personal strengths and weaknesses in the narrative mode

Hand in:

• Reader's Notebook with Reading Log #13 and Reading Log E.C.

Hand out:

• Reader's Log #12
• Who's Who Poems
• Article of the Week 1
• Folders

Opening:

1. Review some of the great work turned in before the break

• Who's Who Poems
• Article of the Week 1

2. Discuss Article of the Week #2 "India Launches First Mission to Mars"

• How do you know it is Informational?
• Fiction has Story Elements (characters, setting, problem/solution, plot)
• Nonfiction has a variety of organizational structures
• Cause and Effect
• Sequence
• Problem/Solution
• Description
• Compare and Contrast
• Proposition and Support 

• How do Signal Words Help?
• What is the topic?
• What do you predict will be the organizational structure?

Work Period:
3. Return to the EA on pages 31-33.  

4. In your journal, find your "Unpacked EA #1: Writing a Narrative about an Incident that Changed Me"

5. As a large group, let's unpack it:

• Ideas
• Organization
• Use of Language
• Conventions

6. Check in on and Review "Memory Maps"

• What is in the Memory Map activity that you need in your Narrative?
• What have we already learned a lot about? (which activity #?)
• What do we need to still learn more about?

7. What are your strengths and weaknesses in the narrative mode?

• Review the Short Story EA in your Folder
• Use the handout to explore your areas of weakness and concern
• Write a Plan of Action for your Personal Narrative so that you improve as a writer in this mode.

Closing:

8. Share some of the Memory Maps that are turned in.

• Who's Missing their Memory Map???